ATM : BODEGA AT THIS MOMENT

In this special episode, Ben talks w/ Mancunian saxophonist and poet Alabaster Deplume about the philosophy and process behind Alabaster’s new LP ‘A Blade Because a Blade is Whole’. The duo also discuss Alabaster’s relationship to new British jazz, improvisation as a way of life, TOOL, Julmud’s ‘Tuqoos’, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s destructive radical honesty, Nietzsche’s eternal return, writing lyrics in intoxicated isolation, ‘Buy it’, and Alabaster’s experiences in Palestine.

BODEGA AT THIS MOMENT is a podcast curated by Ben Hozie of the NYC band BODEGA, interviewing musicians about their creative history, philosophy, and process.In this episode Ben chats with Kyle Crew of the NYC art punk band Consumables. They discuss the thematics and stories behind Consumables’s new LP ‘Infinite Games’ (produced by Ben) including Kyle’s father’s LA punk pedagogy, the influence of Parquet Court’s ‘Life Up Gold’, post punk vs. the blues, tribulations of collaboration, and a six month stint in Arkansas jail.

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For the final episode of the season, Ben chats w/ Bodega Bay drummer Aiko Masubuchi about ’N.A.S.S.’, the violent song Bodega Bay used to close most of their sets. The duo also discuss Aiko’s unique sticking of the motorik beat, Sonic Youth’s use of prepared guitar, and the impossibility of re-creating the charming naiveté of first recordings. The episode ends with Ben pondering the nostalgia-obsessed state of postmodern pop culture, Charli XCX’s Brat, and the song ‘Realism’. 

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For the 21st episode, Ben chats with filmmaker and Bodega Bay member Joe Wakeman about ‘Cultural Consumer IV’ and his other songwriting contributions to Bodega Bay. The duo also discuss the B Bay outtake of ‘Brancusi Brainwash Birds’ featuring Joe’s keyboards, of Montreal’s progressive pop, Bowie and Bolan’s only collaboration, ‘Notoriety’, Wes Anderson, Courtney Barnett, the song Joe initially wrote for Endless Scroll (Toyzanne’s ‘Maps’), Acrylic Gesso, and the time Bodega Bay staged a rock opera. 

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For the 20th episode, Ben and BODEGA bassist Adam See discuss the song ‘Adaptation of the Truth about Marie’ and the existential romance novel it’s based on, Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s ‘The Truth about Marie.’ The duo also discuss the philosophical implications of first and third person narration, Andre Bazin, Goldeneye for Nintendo 64, Roger Corman’s ‘The Raven’, Godard’s ‘Contempt’, Ben’s first film ‘Annunciation’, R.E.M., and the concept of adaptation itself.

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For the 19th episode, Ben breaks down the ideas behind the song ‘Listen w/ Yr Eyes’ w/ a little help from BODEGA singer and percussionist Nikki Belfiglio. Ben and Nikki also discuss Nikki’s attraction to the hi-hat, ‘conscious rock’, the ten year anniversary of Alphaville, music listening phenomenology, and the new Bandcamp compilation for Palestine that features a new BODEGA studio outtake of the Bodega Bay song ‘Second Row Center'.

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For the 18th episode, Ben dissects the song ‘Music Hall of Williamsburg’’ and the long bewildered journey it took as an adaptation of the Bodega Bay song ‘ATM II’. He also discusses Brechtian rap rock, Dinosaur Jr.’s use of flanger, the absurdity of wanting a band to be your life, and his own rock existential crisis that inspired the lyrics about a cultural consumer questioning everything while waiting at a venue’s ATM.

A deep dive behind the music and philosophy of the NYC art rock band BODEGA. BODEGA BEN breaks down each track from their new album 'Our Brand Could be Yr Life', exploring the theme of the record: the current state of underground rock music. Together with guests and friends including Bodega Bay members and current collaborators, they dissect the story behind the music.For this very special episode, Ben gets a play-by-play history of one of his favorite NYC bands, the legendary Milk Dick. Ben interviews Milk Dick’s leader Mike Delaney about growing up in the Bronx, working at CBGB’s, playing music w/ Juan Wauters, shitgaze and the Fall, the Hospitals, the Velvets, playing punk quiet, meeting Bodega Bay, and Mike’s use of yearning, memory, comedy, sex, hard drugs, and damage in his songwriting. The guys also discuss Mike's profound emotional connection to his ex-bandmates Meg and Brian and dissect the process behind the three Milk Dick LPs and the Milk Dick song BODEGA covered on their new EP, ‘Cry When Yr Young’.